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Nearly 90 audience members walked out in the middle of a sold-out performance last Thursday at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) to protest the explicit language and subject matter, according to the show’s star, improvisational monologist Mike Daisey...
...even seems possible that the Court may actually be further from overturning Roe v. Wade today (with only two explicit votes to oveturn) than it was five years ago (when there were three votes to overturn including Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist...
...many attendees of Picture Balata’s opening reception last Wednesday, the event’s strong pro-Palestinian view of the Israeli occupation was explicit. The moving testimonies of three children from the Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank, coupled with their bleak photographs, vividly portrayed the hardships that these teenagers have had to face in a volatile refugee camp...
...rape cases each year are unreported or grossly mishandled by medical and legal response centers. She also neglects to explain how changing women’s “sexual behavior” will change males’ responses to women, or why requiring both partners’ explicit consent is not the logical solution to the gray areas she identifies. Worst of all, her argument assumes that women with “common sense gone askew” are complicit in sexual attacks...
...believe that prevention strategies should help women to reduce risks and teach men to seek explicit consent. However, Caldwell’s argument—which imputes partial blame and suspicion to the victims—reinforces the perspective that women invite rape by tempting others to attack them. This strategy of victim-blaming and intimidation is simply abhorrent, and only furthers attitudes permissive to sexual violence...